Description
Dementia is a common, chronic, irreversible condition that predominantly affects older people, intefering with the patient’s cognitive functions, social interactions and behaviour.
Although our understanding of its basic pathophysiology has significantly increased over the past few years, dementia remains essentially incurable. It is not rapidly fatal and many patients survive several years after the diagnosis is made. During this time the patients’ cognitive functions slowly deteriorate and the patient becomes difficult to manage.
In the absence of effective medication to treat dementia, relatives and caregivers have to adjust and be prepared to meet an increasing burden of care for the patient. With no option but to witness the gradual deterioration of their loved one, this exerts a tremendous psycho-social, as well as economic burden on the patient, relatives, caregivers and the community.
key speakers
Professor Graham Stokes, Director of Memory Care Services, HC-One @ProfGStokes
Dr Karen Harrison Dening, Head of Research and Evaluation, Dementia UK @DementiaUK
topics include:
An update on the progress made in understanding the patho-physiology of dementia
Help Healthcare professionals appreciate the extent relatives’ and caregivers’ religiosity and spirituality can help them cope providing care to patients with dementia
Provide information about resources available in the community such as those of the Alzheimer’s Association
who will benefit from this event?
This event is perfect for clinicians, nurses and other Healthcare professionals providing care to patients with dementia, and administrators of nursing homes and similar institutions where patients with dementia are admitted.
Relatives of patients with dementia will also find the academic programme useful; to better understand and appreciate the impact of the dementia on their loved ones’ impaired cognitive functions and aberrant behaviour. This understanding will provide caregivers the means of avoiding some aberrant behaviours.
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agenda
8.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
8.50 am
Introduction and welcome
Professor Ronald Hamdy, President, Geriatric & Gerontology Section, The Royal Society of Medicine
Chair: Professor Ronald Hamdy, President, Geriatric & Gerontology Section, Royal Society of Medicine
9.00 am
The many faces of dementia
Professor Ronald Hamdy
9.30 am
Pharmacologic management of dementia: Medication to discontinue and medication to prescribe
Professor Robert Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University College London
10.00 am
Reframing dementia Care in hospitals
Ms Jo James, Lead Nurse, Dementia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
10.30 am
Panel discussion
10.50 am
Tea and coffee break
11.10 am
Is managing their behaviour or responding to the needs of patients with dementia the best way to intervene?
Professor Graham Stokes, Director of Memory Care Services, HC-One
11.40 am
Dementia, loneliness, depression and suicide
Professor Jill Manthorpe, King’s College London
12.10 pm
Dedicated dementia clinics and telecare clinics
Dr Kevin Doughty, Visiting Professor in Digital Transformation of Care Services, University of Cumbria
12.40 pm
Panel discussion
1.00 pm
Lunch
2.00 pm
Screening for dementia: Preventing cognitive decline
Dr Stephen Orleans-Foli, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead, West London Mental Health NHS Trust
2.30 pm
Care management supporting families affected by dementia
Dr Karen Harrison Dening, Head of Research and Evaluation, Dementia UK
3.00 pm
End of life care and dementia
Dr Nathan Davis and Dr Liz Sampson, University College London
3.30 pm
Panel discussion
3.50 pm
Tea and coffee break
4.10 pm
The impact of spirituality and religion on the care of patients with dementia
4.40 pm
Panel discussion
5.00 pm
Close of meeting